Facilities Layout and Location Analysis based on Police Department Position in Dekalb, IL

Abstract

The officers of Dekalb Police Department were aware of the high crime rate and they’re considering whether set up a new office or relocate the existing department to shorten the distance, also, ensure to reach the crime scene in super speedy. To select a more reasonable location, an essential assumption is that the current office will no longer associated with. Besides the existed office, geo-policing is not a necessary factor neither. Therefore, the police officers will work from the new location that we inferred and answer the incoming calls there. First thing first is to model it as a single facility location problem, and then, calculate by the Minisum model with rectangular distances as well as the Minimax model with tchebychev distances.